Intimate Deception

Healing the Wounds of Sexual Betrayal

By: Dr. Sheri Keffer

Narrated by: Dr. Sheri Keffer

Nothing destroys trust like sexual betrayal. Beyond broken vows, a woman who discovers that her husband has been viewing pornography or having an affair must deal with devastating blows to her self-image and self-worth. She must grapple with the fact that the man she thought she knew has lied and deceived her. She may even bear the brunt of shame and judgment when the people around her find out.

Drawing from her experience both as a marriage and family therapist and a woman who personally experienced the devastation of sexual betrayal, Dr. Sheri Keffer walks women impacted by betrayal through the pain and toward recovery. She explains how the trauma of betrayal affects our minds, bodies, spirits, and sexuality. She offers practical tools for dealing with emotional triggers and helps women understand the realities of sexual addiction. And she shows women how to practice self-care, develop healthy boundaries, protect themselves from abuse or manipulation, and find freedom from the burden of shame and guilt.

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best book on betrayal trauma

iIf you are experiencing betrayal trauma start with this book. Most in-depth book I've found, get for the betrayed and offending partner. Also recommend The Betrayal Bind by Michelle Mays.

so much important information to help bring yourself back and keep healing

this book was full of things I had forgotten but needed to remember so I can refocus on my healing rather than getting stuck in the neverending black hole of unanswered questions and feeling so insignificant that I'm no longer myself and can't function as I should in life...highly recommend!

Thank you for putting this in words

Being at a pivotal time for courage, this book helped me greatly. I understand now I have value! It’s time to speak up, do intervention on my husband, give him a choice to get recovery, and be healthy and strong to follow through. I Am wearing a Splendid Crown from God! Thank you for this book!

Great insight for healing after adultery

Excellent book for help when no one understands. This will help them understand your pain and the long road to healing. So many people want to rush you thru grief and this type is a death to what was. Like suicide or miscarriages it is taboo to talk about. So this book was a game changer for me. I felt so understood by the author and while my marriage didn’t make it at least I knew I wasn’t crazy or taking too long to move forward.

Everyone Needs To Read This Book!

Intimate Deception nailed down the “Final Answers” to many questions for me. Experiencing betrayal in my own life as well as watching the lives of people who crossed my path who experienced it, caused me to doubt myself as a woman, a woman if God, and as a human being. This book put the puzzle pieces of my life together, helping to validate my own evaluation of what I have been through.

Thankful, thankful, thankful to Dr. Sheri Keffer for her transparency, love, and nurturing heart that birthed this book into life for others.

I could write a book of thanks to you, Dr. Keffer, and I will be forever grateful to New Life Ministries where you talked about your book! I have passed it on to a number of women who have been through intimacy betrayal. And I am full of Thanksgiving for the wonderful Lord we love and serve.

My focus and mission is to see women free to be in Christ.

Amazing.

The author reads her own book and it is beyond helpful in understanding what you're going through, how the brain works... I can't even describe how much this book helped me while going through the biggest trial of my life. If you've been sexually betrayed in *any* way, be it a cheating partner, a sex addicted partner, or a partner who has betrayed you through watching and hiding a porn addiction... whatever the case, you need to read this book.

Some traction, finally…

Gave me some ground to start walking again. Drawing my map towards self-care and recovery…thank you for sharing your story.

Intense and Well Said

I'm in shock how sexual deception and infidelity damage relationship. This is an encyclopedia of a resource. thank you for writing it!

helpful

it was very helpful. I was struggling mental with it and I moat defiantly feel this is a must read to help for anyone dealing with feeling betrayed. thank you

It’s like this book was written about my life

I can relate. Every chapter, the emotions the author described gave me words and helped me name the feelings I have experienced over the past two decades and beyond. Thank God for this book. It doesn’t replace counseling, but it definitely is worth months worth of visits in my opinion. So helpful. So validating.